Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 31
He only thought these words, but the other replied, as if guessing what he meant:--
Who acts: moujik · What happens: think, reply, guess, mean · To what, where: words, other
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 replied | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guessing | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 guessing | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 guessing | mark |
| 14 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 guessing | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meant | nsubj |
| 17 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 -- | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | ccomp |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | moujik | this words | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | moujik not said here | the other | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | guess | gerund | moujik not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | past | moujik | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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